California is the land of fruits and nuts and now its governor has come to show us.
Check out this headline and its story:
Newsom Suggests Inflation Is a Conservative Lie
Newsom also claimed that the 18 percent increase in the average hourly wage compared to three years ago is “nearly the best 3-year gain in 40 years.”
The cost of things goes up a specific amount while people don't get to keep their entire wage increase.
So when Newsom says that wages have increased 18% the last three years, which is a clear exaggeration, he should admit that because of taxes, especially in California, they probably only keep around two thirds of that, or 12%, and their buying power drops substantially.
Real wages under Trump rose substantially, especially for those at the bottom, because his energy, tax, and regulation policies kept overall inflation low.
It is a true shame that Newsom and other Dems care so little about the poor that they sought to destroy Trump every day with lies.
Here are the lies that were told after Biden took office and inflation skyrocketed to forty-year highs.
First, the Biden administration said inflation was transitional.
Then they blamed the supply chain, but that isn't true, either, because the supply chain was screwed up in 2020 and inflation was still below 2% before Biden took office.
Then they lied that it was because Biden's policies had turned the economy around when it was already rapidly growing in the last six months of 2020 before Biden took office.
Then they lied and blamed Russia. They love playing the Russian card. The problem is inflation took off as soon as Biden took office, a year before Russia invaded Ukraine.
They blamed the price of oil and "greedy" gas station owners, which was utterly wrong, but they didn't help the situation by constraining supply through their bans on drilling and their begging to the world's dictators to drill for us instead.
Inflation took off because of Biden's government kept throwing more money out for government programs and hiring, printing money in the process, even after the economy was rapidly growing.
Sadly, most of the media just regurgitate Democrat lies.
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It has started: Lefty prof says fleeing New Yorkers not a problem because immigrants will replace them
By Monica Showalter
Blue cities have become socialist hellholes, and not surprisingly, people are fleeing.
High taxes, extended lockdowns, massive crime, and rioting and looting have all driven taxpayers from Portland to New York to pack up and leave their cities, heading to friendlier red climes where rule of law is a thing, taxes are low, businesses are easy to start, and public officials show common sense on COVID risks. According to the New York Post:
FlatRate Movers said the 100 moves a day it does in the city are very different from previous years.
"We used to move a lot of people from Brooklyn to Manhattan or Queens," said David Giampietro, the company's chief administrative officer. "Now it's the mileage. We're not going 5 miles anymore. It's more like 20, 30, 40" to New Jersey, Connecticut and upstate.
More than 16,000 New Yorkers changed their address to Connecticut from March through June, the Hartford Courant reported.
United Van Lines and Mayflower movers said it had done 1,000 out-of-state moves from New York City starting in March, with 28 percent to Florida and California, and 16 percent to Texas and North Carolina.
Writer James Alschuler notes that it's gotten very bad in New York, indeed — so bad that he forecasts that the city won't be recover. His must-read piece is here.
It ought to be a point of embarrassment for these blue leftist ruling claques that people are fleeing. People flee the chaos of systemic socialism wherever it is found, sometimes on leaky rafts, sometimes by barreling over walls, and sometimes by UHaul, and all these elites can think is, they're in good company. Like shortages, people voting with their feet is found wherever socialism is found.
So here we are, with thousands of productive people fleeing New York, and instead of begging for them to come back, as Andrew Cuomo did in not so serious terms a few weeks ago, the hardest of the hardcore leftists are now saying, "Big deal, there's more where that came from."
Here's the view of a leftist professor, explaining why human and capital flight is no problemo in New York City, according to Axios:
· "What's going to really save New York is immigrants," says Hacker, who has taught political science to many generations of them.
· While lots of New Yorkers are leaving, "out there in Bangalore and Ukraine and Natal, there are people who want to be New Yorkers" who will gladly take their place, bringing their ambition and brainpower.
· Hacker welcomes these voluntary New Yorkers: "I only want people in the city who want to be here."
This is pretty much the same thing Mayor Bill de Blasio said just a couple weeks ago. According to the New York Post, emphasis mine:
I think you'll see a certain number of people who leave and at the appropriate time — after there's a vaccine — will come back. I think you'll see some people decide they want a different kind of lifestyle, I think those people will be replaced by other people coming in," de Blasio said. "I think that pattern will start again over the next couple of years.
So no worries about people fleeing; there's always more where they came from. To socialists, people are always just "matter," putty in the hands of socialist central planners, and if some flee, they've got replacement parts, with bottomless resources, so who cares? They can always get more where they came from. Never mind the little detail that the people fleeing are often immigrants themselves — the productive kind.
With an arrogant attitude like this, it certainly becomes easy to avoid fiscal reform, end the stranglehold of unions, and drop the choking regulations and lockdowns if there's an endless supply of people, doesn't it? Who needs to adopt a moderate course or reduce the socialist strangleholds on the economy when there's no need to conserve people? This is why the socialists are just going to keep getting crazier.
Mickey Kaus forecast that it would happen and was not surprised:
THAT DIDN'T TAKE LONG: "'What’s going to really save New York is immigrants,' says [Andrew] Hacker"... While lots of New Yorkers are leaving, 'out there in Bangalore and Ukraine and Natal, there are people who want to be New Yorkers' who will gladly take their place." https://t.co/HcA5S4IIH8
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 24, 2020
As usual, he got it right. It's pretty obvious they'll glom onto this narrative more as a means of avoiding any address of their socialist failures. Socialists never ever say they're sorry.
Why Los Angeles Is Not Safe Anymore | Dennis Zine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL8DU0MUuk8
Migrant enclaves already are at the top of the U.S. lists for bad places to - 10 of the 50 worst places in America to live according to this list are in California, and all of them are famous for their illegal populations. MONICA SHOWALTER
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD BIDEN, OR ANY DEM SAY THE WORD ‘HOMELESS’??? BUT YOU SURE HAVE HEARD THEM SAY ‘AMNESTY’. GIVE OUR ILLEGALS MUCHO MAS MORE!
LOS ANGELES UNBELIEVABLE OUT OF CONTROL HOMELESS SLUMS | HOMELESS CRISIS IN AMERICA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQHKygOupwg
“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes (CALIFORNIA?). This is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” Karen McQuillan
VIDEO: MEX GANG MURDER MAN IN HIS TRUCK! GRAPHIC!
'Should we even be standing here?' Rob Schmitt goes on shocking Los Angeles ride-along
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVfqSgtwDpQ
CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES NO. 2, NUMBER ON IS INLAND EMPIRE, ALSO LIST S.F.
AVOID THESE CITIES (7 WORST in America)
VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De_atmpPgC0
Migrant enclaves already are at the top of the U.S. lists for bad places to - 10 of the 50 worst places in America to live according to this list are in California, and all of them are famous for their illegal populations.
MONICA SHOWALTER
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DEMOCRAT PARTY? I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are hostile to people of faith and spirituality, demonize the police and protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans, believe in open borders, weaponize the national security state to go after political opponents, and above all, dragging us ever closer to nuclear war. TULSI GABBARD
Pelosi, through her holdings in local restaurants and vineyards, is reputed to be one of the largest employers of illegal labor in Northern California.
"Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, the twin nutters of Congress, were certain they could beat Trump at his own game, but have made fools of themselves, as usual. The stand-off is not over but with each passing day, the Democrats reveal more of their anti-American, pro-illegal immigration agenda. Conservatives have been sounding the alarm for years: Democrats do not care about American citizens!" PATRICIA McCARTHY
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S NAFTA INVASION TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED. Is it working???
There is also an impact on wages.
If impoverished migrants agree to work for less than minimum wages without benefits, the working-class citizens either suffers job redundancy or depression in wages. If they work under the table and send their untaxed remittances home, communities go underdeveloped and get a run-down look.
RAJAN LAAD
When some among the migrants commit violent crimes -- through car break-ins, burglaries, vandalism, fentanyl dealing, identity theft, strongarm robberies, rapes, and other violent crimes, it is the working class citizen who suffers. At times, they pay with their lives.By Rajan Laad
The costs of illegal immigration are
being carefully hidden by Democrats.
MONICA SHOWALTER
What's more, Mexico generally benefits from shipping its surplus uneducated population to the states to take the pressure valve off the potential for unrest. Corrupt Mexican officials often reap "fees" from letting illegal migrants from other countries as well as their own pass through their territory. MONICA SHOWALTER
Last month, a thrice-deported illegal immigrant with a long history
of violent crime stabbed five people, killing two, John Paulson, 45,
and Kimberly Susan Fial, 55, at the Grace Baptist Church in San
Jose. DAVE SEMINARA
Releasing to the streets gang members eligible for deportation is nothing new in Santa Clara County. ICE published a report in 2018 detailing that 142 gang members whom the agency was seeking to deport during a nine-month period in 2017 were released by local law enforcement rather than being transferred to federal custody; Santa Clara County led the nation, releasing 22 gang members. DAVE SEMINARA
As reported by Breitbart Texas, the arrest of migrants with existing criminal records has risen more than 350 percent since 2020. According to CBP, the number of migrants who have criminal convictions for Homicide and Manslaughter rose from 3 encounters in 2020 to more than 60 in 2022. More than 120 migrants with homicide or manslaughter convictions have been encountered since January 2021 — compared to 11 during the Trump era. The increase reflects those convicted of prior offenses committed in the United States.
Joe Biden and other Democrats have spent the last four years repeating the mantra “no one is above the law.” Yet Biden has advocated policies that would, as the San Francisco Chronicle recently noted, effectively make the United States a sanctuary country.
Adios, Sanctuary La Raza Welfare State of California
A fifth-generation Californian laments his state’s ongoing economic collapse.
By Steve Baldwin
American Spectator
What’s clear is that the producers are leaving the state and the takers are coming in. Many of the takers are illegal aliens, now estimated to number over 2.6 million (BLOG: THE NUMBER IS CLOSER TO 15 MILLION ILLEAGLS). The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that California spends $22 billion (DATED: NOW ABOUT $35 BILLION YEARLY AND THAT IS ON THE STATE LEVEL ONLY. COUNTIES PAY OUT MORE) on government services for illegal aliens, including welfare, education, Medicaid, and criminal justice system costs.
Liberals claim they more than make that up with taxes paid, but that’s simply not true. It’s not even close. FAIR estimates illegal aliens in California contribute only $1.21 billion in tax revenue, which means they cost California $20.6 billion, or at least $1,800 per household.
Nonetheless, open border advocates, such as Facebook Chairman Mark Zuckerberg, claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to support such an assertion. As the Center for Immigration Studies has documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few skills. How does accepting millions of illegal aliens and then granting them access to dozens of welfare programs benefit California’s economy? If illegal aliens were contributing to the economy in any meaningful way, California, with its 2.6 million illegal aliens, would be booming.
Furthermore, the complexion of illegal aliens has changed with far more on welfare and committing crimes than those who entered the country in the 1980s. Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that in 2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the 18th Street gang, were illegal aliens. Granted, those statistics are old, but if you talk to any California law enforcement officer, they will tell you it’s much worse today. The problem is that the Brown administration will not release any statewide data on illegal alien crimes. That would be insensitive. And now that California has declared itself a “sanctuary state,” there is little doubt this sends a message south of the border that will further escalate illegal immigration into the state.
"If the racist "Sensenbrenner Legislation" passes the US Senate, there is no doubt that a massive civil disobedience movement will emerge. Eventually labor union power can merge with the immigrant civil rights and "Immigrant Sanctuary" movements to enable us to either form a new political party or to do heavy duty reforming of the existing Democratic Party. The next and final steps would follow and that is to elect our own governors of all the states within Aztlan."
Indeed, California goes out of its way to attract illegal aliens. The state has even created government programs that cater exclusively to illegal aliens. For example, the State Department of Motor Vehicles has offices that only process driver licenses for illegal aliens. With over a million illegal aliens now driving in California, the state felt compelled to help them avoid the long lines the rest of us must endure at the DMV. And just recently, the state-funded University of California system announced it will spend $27 million on financial aid for illegal aliens. They’ve even taken out radio spots on stations all along the border, just to make sure other potential illegal border crossers hear about this program. I can’t afford college education for all my four sons, but my taxes will pay for illegals to get a college education.
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